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Radiation beam shutter collimator

  • US 3,275,831 A
  • Filed: 05/16/1963
  • Issued: 09/27/1966
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/16/1963
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A STRUCTURE FOR COLLIMATING A BEAM OF RADIATION DIRECTED FROM A SOURCE OF RADIATION TOWARD A DETECTOR, SAID STRUCTURE COMPRISING A CYLINDRICAL MEMBER MOUNTED FOR ROTATION ABOUT A LONGITUDINAL AXIS TRANSVERSELY SITUATED WITH RESPECT TO SAID RADIATION BEAM, SAID MEMBER HAVING REVERSE-TAPPERED RADIATION APERTURE PROVIDED THERETHROUGH WITH THE AXIS THEREOF POSITIONED PERPENDICULAR TO SAID AXIS OF ROTATION, THE CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA OF SAID APERTURE BEING SMALLER AT THE CENTER OF SAID MEMBER AT THE INTERSECTION OF SAID LONGITUDINAL AXES THAN AT THE SURFACE OF SAID MEMBER, AND MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID

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